"smobgirl" (smobgirl)
09/04/2020 at 02:41 • Filed to: None
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"smobgirl" (smobgirl)
09/04/2020 at 02:41 • Filed to: None | 6
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My day started at 9:45pm Wednesday, when I left for the airport. Took a redeye to Atlanta for work and just now got home. Over the course of that day I spent 2 hours on commuter rail, roughly 5 hours on airplanes, roughly 6 hours driving, about 4 hours doing the on-site work, and walked twelve miles. If you sent someone from one of the banks who pay me to do this shit it would cost several times what I was just paid in accommodations alone but I’m the one making sure they don’t get fucked on this loan.
Also, no Road Atlanta because a) I’m poor and b) rental cars were $150/day when this trip was confirmed (for relevance , please cycle back to a).
I’m goddamn exhausted right now.
Svend
> smobgirl
09/04/2020 at 04:32 |
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Jesus Christ, I hope you get into work, walk up to your boss and stay, ‘right f**ker, wh ere’s my god damn treat? I’ve jumped through every damn hoop for this job, when a pet does it, it gets a treat, where’s my god damn treat?’.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> smobgirl
09/04/2020 at 05:29 |
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what a crap job.
i86hotdogs
> smobgirl
09/04/2020 at 07:01 |
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My job’s been tossing me around on different start times lately. Most of it is due to the COVID since part of my job is scanning temps for employees for half the day, then return to my regular work the other half. I still manage to get as much work as I can done in half the time. I’ll work 4:30am-1:30pm, then come in at midnight to cover another 9 hours then. THEN come back the third day and work 4:00pm-1:00am. My sleep schedule’s hecked up. But when it comes to discussing bonuses next spring, I’m going to plead my case hard in regards to that.
shop-teacher
> smobgirl
09/04/2020 at 07:22 |
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$150 a day!?!?!? Bag that!
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> smobgirl
09/04/2020 at 08:10 |
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A couple weeks ago I Had to do a job about 3.5 hours from home for work. Coworkers (2) didn’t want to stay in a hotel in Wisconsin, so we ended up leaving at 7AM and getting home about 1.30AM
TheRealBicycleBuck
> smobgirl
09/04/2020 at 08:58 |
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“ Good job! Now, here’s your next assignment....” says the boss.
I did a lot of field work early in my career. As you say, it’s not easy. After Katrina, my company contracted to do levee inspections across the nation. My job was to take care of the technology requirements , so I would meet the team at the remote site , verify all of th e equipment was configured properly, train the newbies, make sure EVERYONE understood who was in charge when it came to daily tasks and managing the equipment, spend the first day on the levee with the team, then head home. I picked up again with the team after the inspection was complete to make sure that the data was processed correctly and the report was written to our standards.
I felt sorry for the poor bastards who had to walk the levee during the inspection. Their goal was to complete between 15 and 20 miles a day and they usually had to do that for at least a week, often more. They would swap side-slope/toe duties. When on that duty, they had to walk up and down the levee while still meeting the 15 to 20 miles per day.
To meet our federal requirements, we had to hire a small business of some sort. They would provide a few “inspectors” to assist us and it wasn’t unusual for the guy who showed up to be some older fellow who had spent his life parked behind a desk. They weren’t prepared for the level of effort expected of them. Fortunately, w e didn’t have any casualties, but we did have a couple of guys pass out . That would end an inspection for the day, but they usually bounced back after an evening of rest in the hotel . We had to send one guy home when he tried to take over the team because he didn’t want to walk the levee per his contract requirements. He thought he could do the inspection from the truck. :)
It sounds like you’re doing challenging work and you’re building experience that will pay off in the long run. You’ll be able to parlay that into a better job in the future.
RacinBob
> smobgirl
09/04/2020 at 09:20 |
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Wow, $ 150 a day for an Atlanta car rental is crazy. I went on Hotwire to prove you wrong and found nothing’s available. Went on travelocity and only some Explorers at $350 a day. I went on my Emerald Aisle Account and nothing available. I’d sure like to hear the explanation of that......
InFierority Complex
> RacinBob
09/04/2020 at 09:54 |
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The c ovid shutdown hit rental cars hard and I’m sure they haven’t recovered at all. The Hertz rental fleet is just over half the size it was in 2019 for example.
WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/04/2020 at 10:18 |
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Most jobs would be much easier if you di dn’t have to deal with the people : )
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smobgirl
> RacinBob
09/04/2020 at 10:23 |
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Some of the rental car agencies have sold off their fleet and some moved a bunch of excess cars to storage lots that apparently aren’t in Atlanta. Although...the garage they use in Atlanta looked full of unused cars. But why un-retire them when your pricing is based on supply/demand!
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smobgirl
> Svend
09/04/2020 at 10:28 |
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My boss is cool. Our industry is just restrained because banks pay as little as possible for what we do. I complain, but I do love to travel and few people at my income level have seen (or can afford to see) the amount of the country I have. It would be a bit nicer to see it the way the bankers do though!
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smobgirl
> TheRealBicycleBuck
09/04/2020 at 10:31 |
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Yep. I’ve had some very helpful folks offer to drive me around on golf carts or in trucks. Got a quick truck tour yesterday to start and then got to hike the whole thing! It was a beautiful day in north Georgia though.
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smobgirl
> i86hotdogs
09/04/2020 at 10:34 |
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Absolutely. Nothing worse to me than early mornings that vary all over the place! I took a redeye because (as long as I get a window seat) they’re easier for me than waking up for a 5 am flight and I can still use the train to the airport.
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smobgirl
> pip bip - choose Corrour
09/04/2020 at 10:37 |
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It has its perks, but they don’t include second homes in ski towns like the bank representatives who toured the local property with me this week.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> smobgirl
09/04/2020 at 11:33 |
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Most levee inspections are “drive-by” inspections. Federal law requires that the local managing entity inspect their levees four times a year. The army corps of engineers is required to inspect every levee once a year. Most of these inspections are done from the seat of a truck. Often they are done at 45 mph.
Every five years, the law requires a walking inspection. Those are usually done by contractors.
The funny thing is that the laws don’t have any teeth. The same problems are noted on every inspection. Encroachments are the most common issue. Someone built a fence in the right of way and it was never taken down or perhaps a tree is growing too close to or on the slope of the levee. More serious issues are typically addressed, but little things are generally ignored.
DipodomysDeserti
> smobgirl
09/04/2020 at 13:37 |
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My uncle was a banker. He got paid lots of money for doing jack shit, and is cheap as hell. That’s how people born without money get rich. He was forced to retire as a result of covid, so now he gets paid to do literally nothing.